Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-19
MAYOR LESTER ELECTED
WITHOUT OPPOSITION.

WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
1he Straight AldermAnic Ticket Elected
with the Execution of J. u, sheldon.
who is Defeated by w. +. Reid-A
Close Race Between Il. ID. BOEart and
George :. Haines and George A. aud-
son--L Quor DeaIers Scratch the Sigh
L'cenee Nen-The Count to be Finished
This Morning.
Yesterday was the scratchers fiold
dav. lie started to wocH az ms polls
cSyS ar; ne Kept 1t up until the boxes
r-'rV el0T I'd. His opportunity was the
CRY ectiCn for Mayor and a board Of
twelve Aldermen 10 serve two years.
So far as the weather was concerned
the day was not one of the ideal election
sort, az d dudbly lucky were those candi-
dates lOg municipal honors who mad no
opposition.
Mayor Lester was one who did not have
any cause 10 bother about the blustery
weather keeping friends away from the
polls, because there was~no one running
against him. For the twelve AldermaniC
chairs there were sixteen candidates,
three of vi HON were knights Of Labor and
one was lored. The total number Of
names reg stored was ,, 1875.
As there was but one ticket for the
MayOralty Il was generally supposed that
the voting would be q LITTLE off, and 200
was estimated the day before as probably
the highest number of bel9G's that would
he cast. The voting at,Ald OF quite
lively and Kept up well y! n he middle
oil tae afternoon. by whly. e4,bA over 900
tickets had been dropped - the boxes.
There were four Of these 49, rge OF The
managers OF the TegisN A,s
ALDERMEN BADLN s,'r ~. HE'D.
q great deal of cutting e TNne, par
tNcularly by the workins"1Nt tA(t liquor
dealers. The former scr3 taNtt Aiierm n
SneidCn, B0sart and Mills 80 ~. board,
and voted for Messrs. W. +. Geid, George
Hudson and q. f. VI illtuk. The liquor
dealers scratched the names OF Aldermen
Thomas, Wells, Bngart. Mills and Shell
don because those five were nigh license
men. The high license CITIZENS returned
the compliment, though in ese measure,
by scratching the old Aldermen who
voted for a reduction Of the license.
the ticket-nolders and the few workers
VINO were expected to say around the
-..poAls had "a cold time of it. Some OF those
z Who were the most Fly" picked out the
N Trey ton street box. where they could
NV an opportunity Of leaning in the sun
H*&fnst the wall back Of the court house,
N1A where they were the least exposed to
eHina. There was quite IA variety Of
cktts, and the names were So mixed up
41at the voter had to scan the eagerly
sgeetp neither or not II contained the exact
Munaes which he wished to vote.
THE DECAPITATED TICKET.
rs Tbe Workingmeu's Club had out a de-
Fapf ated ticket which bore only the
Tames al The candidates VINO were ln-
tsHr& q at Monday nights mass meeting
~ ldermen. Then there was the reg
Xt&f ticket which had Mayor Testers
n&ne at he top and the candidates whom
Ia nf- ~ GIN nj
was abroad in variety OF forms with one
or two names omitted and the names Of
Other candidates on it. The citizens of
: the First district, or some of them 81
H&st, had ticket in the field bearing the
uaIne OF one OF ITS colored residents.
Al u day tue Court House was surround
"a ~ crowd, but il kept changing, as
X4xy few besides some of the candidates
y re sufficiently interested in the result
crave the rather too fresh wind.
@ CLOSING OF THE POLLS.
"a O'Clock, when the polls closed,
WI ] 500 ballots had been cast. The
LIS we're at once taken up into the
~ CouIt room and sealed and left IN
s caarge of two policemen while the
b ia gers went OF for supper. They
armed at 9 O'Clock and began
8 IN work of counting. Capt. 7. II. Laird
@4&fled out the names one by one, and
Ma .istrate r. +. Shettall, J. Mar.
shsil aud A. j. j. Blols kept
tally. The counting proceeded
very slowly on account OF the scratches,
and it was then said that the result would
v1ent be known until late this morning,
nd maybe not before noon.
PROGRESS OF THE COUNT.
Hitter counting the first box the man
- concluded that they could make
H9{fer Tune by WORK NJ differently, ana SO
1hey all " emit TO work al counting and
each announced his count. Mnj. John
<E1l5 3 arr led the ticket, and the race be- |
|XEeu Mr.. B0gart, Mr.. HaiGes and Mr.. !
Hodson was very close in the First and
H1|eoBid districts. BY the time the first
66< was counted il was seen that Mr.. /
IA would beat Alderman Sheldon. At
when the count Of the first two
ItTxss was com letcd. he vote stood:
FOR MAYOR